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    <body><![CDATA[I read the free ebook version.  Started slow, mostly because it was jumping around to different characters.  But ended up to be a pretty good read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A Mary Sue is a Mary Sue is a Mary Sue.  I don't care if you bump 'em &amp; bruise 'em, or give them an illness ahead of time, they're STILL a Mary Sue.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good read and a very interesting scenario.  Not a very deeply written book but it makes you think.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love post apocalypse novels, and this was one of the better ones. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful romp in a science fiction / fantasy realm. <br/>The entire premise of this book and it's series seems to stem from Clark's third law, &quot;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&quot;<br/>When an incredibly advanced earth is stripped of it's science then a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33417834">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A poor man's version of Dies the Fire.]]></body>
    
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